Get concatenated value for a column without cursor
This script provides comma separated values of one column for each value of another column. It provides it in SQL 2005 without using cursor.
2010-07-06 (first published: 2010-06-14)
2,325 reads
Scripts
How to output datafiles location using sp_helpdb?
This is a quick way of outputting the location of your database files/dbsize/date created on your instance.
2010-07-02 (first published: 2010-06-06)
1,386 reads
Restore All Backups
SCRIPT TO RESTORE BACKUP FOR ALL DATABASES, PLACED IN FOLDER CALLED
ORIGIN_FOLDER, WITH THE INITIALS 'DBVF' AND EXTENSION '.BAK'
2010-06-30 (first published: 2010-06-08)
2,850 reads
2010-06-29 (first published: 2010-06-09)
1,187 reads
Finding Ratio between two numbers
This function finds the ratio betwen two numbers.Just plug into your SP and enjoy.
2010-06-23 (first published: 2010-06-01)
2,266 reads
Get default values of parameters in stored procedures
Helps to get the default value of parameters from stored procedures and functions.
2010-06-22 (first published: 2010-05-26)
3,446 reads
Another way to get a table list from a string
I prepared this version (my original did not used XML)
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2010-06-15 (first published: 2010-05-13)
1,902 reads
fn_getfiledetails - a replacement for xp_getfiledetails
As the undocumented SQL Server 2000 function xp_getfiledetails is not existent any more in 2005 or later i needed a replacement...
2010-06-14 (first published: 2010-05-07)
3,645 reads
IsNumber fails cast while IsBigInt passes cast
IsNumber does weak checking and fails cast to BigInt so I wrote IsBigInt to replace it.
2010-06-11 (first published: 2010-05-05)
3,526 reads
A quick way to find recently entered datetime entries in tables
Sometimes you need to scan a large number of datetime columns for most recent access.
2010-06-08 (first published: 2010-05-04)
1,881 reads
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Split Large Queries in Athena with a Simple Modulo Trick
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers